Carlberg, Somewhere in the darker recess of my mind I seem to recall that Fahrenheit used human body temperature as one of his indexes. He originally wanted to use body temp. as 100 degrees. When the boiling point and freezing point were used as calibration points, body temp was then readjusted to 98.6.
Can't recall where I picked up that data so it could be of questionable value. ----- Original Message ----- From: "Carlberg Jones" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: "The Horn List" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Sent: Friday, January 10, 2003 9:33 AM Subject: RE: [Hornlist] very warm in Iowa > At 8:24 AM -0700 1/10/03, Loren <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > >Yes, I subtracted 32 instead of adding it in my head. 40F = 40C. > > New Math? > > 40F = 4.444444444444444642C > > 40C = 104F > > Better - > > Cold > > Nice > > Hot > > Forget Celsius, Centigrade and Fahrenheit. > > Celsius, Anders. 1701-1744. > Swedish astronomer who devised (1742) the centigrade thermometer. > > Fahrenheit, Gabriel Daniel. 1686-1736. > German-born physicist who invented the mercury thermometer (1714) and > devised the Fahrenheit temperature scale. (What on earth was he thinking > when he did this?) > > Carlberg Jones > Colima, Col., Mexico > Tel. 001-52-312-330-3531 (machine okay) > Cel. 001-52-312-320-1701 (please don't leave a message - I never check) > > > _______________________________________________ > Horn mailing list > [EMAIL PROTECTED] > http://music.memphis.edu/mailman/listinfo/horn _______________________________________________ Horn mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://music.memphis.edu/mailman/listinfo/horn
